EP1664421A4 - Chemimechanical desilication of nonwood plant materials - Google Patents
Chemimechanical desilication of nonwood plant materialsInfo
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- EP1664421A4 EP1664421A4 EP04761802A EP04761802A EP1664421A4 EP 1664421 A4 EP1664421 A4 EP 1664421A4 EP 04761802 A EP04761802 A EP 04761802A EP 04761802 A EP04761802 A EP 04761802A EP 1664421 A4 EP1664421 A4 EP 1664421A4
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- silica
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
- D21C5/00—Other processes for obtaining cellulose, e.g. cooking cotton linters ; Processes characterised by the choice of cellulose-containing starting materials
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
- D21C1/00—Pretreatment of the finely-divided materials before digesting
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
- D21C1/00—Pretreatment of the finely-divided materials before digesting
- D21C1/04—Pretreatment of the finely-divided materials before digesting with acid reacting compounds
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
- D21C11/00—Regeneration of pulp liquors or effluent waste waters
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
- D21C3/00—Pulping cellulose-containing materials
- D21C3/02—Pulping cellulose-containing materials with inorganic bases or alkaline reacting compounds, e.g. sulfate processes
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
- D21C9/00—After-treatment of cellulose pulp, e.g. of wood pulp, or cotton linters ; Treatment of dilute or dewatered pulp or process improvement taking place after obtaining the raw cellulosic material and not provided for elsewhere
- D21C9/18—De-watering; Elimination of cooking or pulp-treating liquors from the pulp
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a chemimechanical process for removing silica from nonwood plant fibre sources.
- nonwood plant fiber sources such as wheat straw, flax and hemp
- pulping and papermaking are growing interest in using nonwood plant fiber sources, such as wheat straw, flax and hemp.
- nonwood lignocellulosic materials can find value-added utilization that would enhance the profitability of farm production.
- wood fiber shortages are predicted in the future, nonwood plants are believed to be a sustainable fiber source to potentially supplement the use of wood fibers in paper applications.
- Market forces and legal requirements may stimulate the production of paper that contains nonwood plant fibers, as exemplified by experience with recycled fibers.
- the art of papermaking was originally developed using nonwood plant sources, whereas the production of pulp and paper from wood is a relatively recent development. Pulping processes can be broadly divided into two large categories: chemical pulping and mechanical pulping.
- Chemical pulping involves using chemical reactions to solubilize lignin and produce individual fibers or pulp from lignocellulosic raw materials.
- mechanical pulping category there are many processes that involve varying combinations of chemical, mechanical and thermal treatments to effect fiber separation, remove some lignin and other chemical components from the original fibers, or increase the brightness or papermaking strength of the resulting fibers.
- Chemimechanical pulps (CMP) from wood are produced by processes in which the raw material is treated with weak solutions of pulping chemicals such as sulfur dioxide, sodium sulfite, sodium bisulfite or sodium hydrosulfite, followed by mechanical defloration.
- mechanical pulping seems to be more suitable for raw materials with higher silica content, particularly wheat and rice straws, since the silica is not dissolved to the same extent as for chemical pulps and will for the most part remain with the fibers throughout the pulping and bleaching process.
- Mechanical pulping also generates a minimal volume of effluent, thus reducing the environmental impact.
- mechanical pulping generally results in pulp of lower quality. Significant amounts of lignin are left with the mechanical pulp, making it weaker and more difficult to bleach to high brightness than its chemical pulp counterpart.
- U.S. Patent No. 6,183,598 a process for recovering alkali and heat energy from black liquor is disclosed.
- the black liquor is the result of a chemical process where the nonwood plant material is heated with an alkaline cooking liquor containing sodium hydroxide.
- the black liquor contains a significant amount of silicate ions. Recovery of the sodium hydroxide using lime is usually impeded by the formation of calcium silicate, which makes recycling of the lime difficult or impossible.
- the solution proposed in this patent is to treat the black liquor with carbon dioxide to precipitate silica and lignin. The solids are then removed and the remaining black liquor is evaporated and burnt to generate heat and a sodium carbonate melt, from which carbon dioxide is formed. The carbon dioxide is then reused to treat the black liquor.
- the invention may comprise, in a process for producing pulp from nonwood plant fibers, a chemimechanical desilication process comprising the steps of: (a) wet pre-pulping the nonwood plant fiber under controlled conditions of temperature, solids content or consistency, and pH; (b) removing both suspended solids and dissolved solids from the fibrous portion of the pre-pulped material by filtration or dewatering, or filtration and dewatering; (c) adding acid to the filtrate to force the precipitation of solubilized silica; and (d) removing the silica and other solids from the filtrate, and reusing the filtrate in the pre-pulping step.
- a chemimechanical desilication process comprising the steps of: (a) wet pre-pulping the nonwood plant fiber under controlled conditions of temperature, solids content or consistency, and pH; (b) removing both suspended solids and dissolved solids from the fibrous portion of the pre-pulped material by filtration or dewatering, or filtration and dewatering;
- Figure 1 is a schematic representation of one embodiment of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
- nonwood plant fiber refers to lignocellulosic material which is not derived from wood plants.
- Nonwood plant fiber sources include, but are not limited to, agricultural residual materials, annual and perennial grasses, and annually harvested fiber crops. Examples of agricultural residuals include wheat straw, rice straw, barley straw, oat straw, corn stover, sugar cane bagasse, oilseed flax straw, and oilseed hemp straw. Examples of annual and perennial grasses include reed canary grass, rye grass, reed grass, switchgrass, and fescue. Examples of annually harvested fiber crops include fiber flax, fiber hemp and kenaf.
- the invention comprises a pre-pulping process, which may be followed by acid treatment and bleaching stages.
- the pre-pulping process is intended to liberate and remove much of the silica which may be present in the nonwood plant material.
- the following description describes the method in terms of wheat straw, however, one skilled in the art will recognize that the method may also be applicable to other nonwood plant fibers as well.
- the pre-pulping stage is used to prepare and desilicate the material prior to a conventional pulping process. It is believed that pulp of acceptable quality may then be produced with less impact on the environment and lower chemical and energy costs.
- the process incorporates chemical and mechanical action in the same unit operation.
- the mechanical action liberates the portions of the straw that contain a large percentage of the total silica present in the straw (including the epidermis and nodal material), and the chemical action dissolves the silica that is distributed throughout the remainder of the straw.
- the chemical action occurs when an alkali solution, such as the weak black liquor generated in a subsequent alkaline pulping stage, is added to the dilution of the pulper and refiner.
- the first step is to mechanically liberate the epidermal layer and nodal material of the wheat straw using a mechanical pulping device.
- the mechanical action may occur in two steps that may include a pulper to reduce the size of the coarse particles emanating from a pre-cutting stage and to begin the liberation of the epidermis and nodal material, and a low consistency refiner to complete the size reduction and liberation of the epidermis and nodal material.
- the wheat straw may have been cut and screened prior to this mechanical pulping stage using a dry process such as a disc chipper, forage cutter or tub grinder followed by a screening stage such as a rotary drum screen, vibrating screen or roll type screen.
- the wheat straw is pulped at low consistency, for example between about 0.5% and about 6% solids, under mild alkaline conditions (pH 7-11) using a Tornado PulperTM (Bolton-Emerson Americas Inc.), followed by dewatering or thickening of the pulp.
- the pH is maintained within the target range by using weak black liquor, which is recovered from a subsequent stage as described below, as the dilution source in the mechanical pulping stage. Cloudy Whitewater, acid filtrate, fresh alkali, or fresh acid may also be used in controlling pH.
- Thickening removes both the silica-laden fines and the soluble silica that reports to the filtrate stream as a result of alkaline dissolution.
- fines means material that passes through a 150-mesh screen.
- the pre-pulped and desilicated material may then be processed using well-known and standard pulping and bleaching techniques.
- suitable techniques are described in U.S. Patent Nos. 6,302,997 and 6,258,207.
- FIG. 1 A schematic of a desilication pre-pulping process is shown in Figure 1.
- Baled plant material (10) is brought into the process.
- the bale breaker (12) separates the bales into manageable pieces, either with particle size reduction (for example, using a forage cutter) or without size reduction (for example, using a simple mechanical wedge) for addition to the pulper (14).
- particle size reduction for example, using a forage cutter
- size reduction for example, using a simple mechanical wedge
- Material that passes forward through the pulper (14) is processed in a junk cyclone (15) to remove large tramp material such as rocks and metal prior to refining.
- the plant material is then refined at low consistency in a refiner (16), where the mechanical liberation of the epidermis and nodes is substantially completed.
- material is passed through a sidehill screen (18), where water is removed from the fiberized suspension along with the epidermis and nodal material.
- the size of the liberated epidermal material is such that it is able to pass through the sidehill screen with the filtrate.
- Further dewatering occurs in a press (20), which may be a screw press, belt filter press or similar dewatering device.
- the pH and temperature of the pulper may be controlled to conditions optimum for the removal of silica.
- the preferred conditions are a temperature between 50 degrees Celsius and 90 degrees Celsius, and a pH of between 7 and 12.
- sica refers to both silica found in the epidermis and nodal material, which may be mechanically liberated and removed, and silica that may be solubilized under the preferred process conditions.
- the filtrate of both the sidehill screen and dewatering press will be rich in silica. It passes to a filtrate tank (22) where it may be mixed with Whitewater from subsequent processing stages.
- the silica-rich filtrate (24) may then be pH-adjusted to precipitate soluble silicate ions, and then processed in a hydrocyclone (26) system to remove suspended solids and the precipitated silica.
- the lean filtrate (28) may then be reused as dilution to the pulper (14) and low consistency refiner, with make-up water coining from the aforementioned sources.
- Surplus water (30) in this loop may be directed to the effluent treatment system for further treatment.
- Treatment may include settling or flotation for suspended solids removal, and aerobic or anaerobic treatment for removal of dissolved and colloidal organic materials, or combination of these treatments.
- the precipitated silica may itself be a useful or valuable product and may be used in other industrial applications or processes. This ability to recover and reuse the silica may enhance the economics of a non-wood fiber processing facility.
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